tight. what will that mean for the margins, he's fighting to not only hold on to the senate, but the house, and the house looking very difficult. i was with him in minnesota earlier this week, he lost minnesota. but i can tell you where we were, the crowd was incredibly energized and the stadium was packed, so he's still drawing those very big crowds, chris, even when he is in the reddest of red places, but the question again becomes, will some of that sharp rhetoric in anyway backfire for this president heading into the midterms? >> i used to think we lived in one cun. i don't think we lived in one country any more. you can't talk about how america feels any more. there's two countries right next to each other. thank you for joining us from the white house. let's bring in betsy from the daily beast. and charlie savage. i want to do a little division here. eleanor, you and i have been through these. i just asked you, how do you decide who's going to have the most -- they're leaving the start